Friday, 21 October 2016

I recently finished painting my Volksgrenadier Assault Platoon and supports for the 'Setting The Scene' project. I have based the platoon on a list from the 'Too Fat Lardies' Chain of Command forum.

There are some nice little touches with this list that will make it quite different and fun to game.

For example as part of the platoon HQ, you have a 3 x man Rifle Grenade Team instead of your usual mortar team.

Squad 1 and 2 are your assault squads as they are all tooled up with the STG44 or MP40's and a couple of Panzerfaust.

Squad 3 is your back up with 2 x MG42 Teams and some more automatic weapons.

So I imagine a platoon with weaknesses being volksgrenadiers but on the flipside a lot of firepower with all those automatic weapons.

Maybe I can talk Richard Clarke into coming up with a scenario and game for these, that I could then put in the back of the book, along with lots of pictures of the game.

The Platoon and supports.

Assault Squads 1 & 2 with STG44, MP40 and Panzerfaust.

Squad 3 with the MG's

Support Options - ATG, sniper, FOO, mortar, MMG.

Is this the start of the counter-attack somewhere in the Ardennes December 1944??????

In these pictures you can see the Senior and Junior leaders with their hex shaped bases and dice wells. The senior leaders have a slightly larger base.

The idea with the dice well is to indicate how many command initiatives the leader currently has. Senior leader starting with a 3 and Junior leader a 2. I have done them in white so that they are a little less intrusive on a snow base.

I have also done dice wells for the MG teams so that I can place the 'shock dice' for the squad in the base rather than having the dice trailing behind the squad. The shock dice are usually red but again if you don't want them to be so intrusive you can use white dice for the winter setting. Support options, as with the Panzerschrek, also get a 'dice well' where needed to indicate how many rounds they have used or got left.

The figures are either Artizan Design or Warlord Games. I pinched the idea from the Bolt Action forum where somebody had used the plastic winter Russians with overcoats and converted them into Germans. Ideal for the Volksgrenadiers.

A couple of pictures slightly clearer.

Platoon HQ with the two Senior Leaders, medic and the three man Rifle Grenade Team.

I still have the Panzergrenadier, Fallschirmjager and American infantry platoons to paint. I also plan on winterising my train station and railway track, along with some appropriate signage before I can start putting it all together in book form.

I was hoping to get it all finished by the anniversary of the start of The Battle of the Bulge on 16th December but I might end up going slightly over, which will have been a year in the making.

I have also put the items on the blog that didn't sell, on ebay and reduced the price yet again, if you want to check the links. I have scheduled them to start on Sunday 23rd October.

Also there is a large dust sheet which I have sprayed red/brown paint on and scattered bits of flock on, which covers my 5'x 10' table. I will include this as well if he buyer wants it.

For more images of the terrain and figures and vehicles, click on the Afghanistan label on the right of the page.
£1200

WW2

PERRY MINIATURES 2 x boxes Afrikakorps and 2 x boxes British Infantry. I have removed one of the figures and glued and primed it. There is also a couple of the bases missing on one of the sprues.
Painted British universal carrier and German recon vehicle, plus weathered die-cast vehicle.
£140

TILED/COBBLED ROADS.

28MM vehicle just for indication of scale.
Ideal for roads or base for built up area of buildings.
24 x pieces plus pavement sections at less than £3 each.
£72.

NORMANS relisted and reduced in price. NOW SOLD.

These didn't sell in my last post, so I have taken some more detailed pictures so that you can actually see what you get for your money. I have also reduced the price from £345 down to £300 which is less than £6 a figure, which when you take off the cost of the bare metal, it is less than £5 a figure for painting, basing and varnishing.

RUINS and BARRICADES. Relisted and reduced in price. NOW SOLD.

These didn't sell last time, so I have taken more detailed pictures so that you can see what you are buying. The 28mm figures are just for scale. 28 x pieces of resin terrain.
Reduced from £180 down to £150.

TWO RUINED BUILDINGS

28mm Figure for scale.
Reduced from £55 down to £50

Phew! That's it. If there is anything above that you fancy, then contact me at

About Me

Hi, my name is Pat and I live in the United Kingdom with my wife and son. I have a growing collection of unpainted plastic and lead toy soldiers which I am fighting a losing battle with as the pile keeps growing. Hope you enjoy this blog,
Pat.